Members of the Blauvelt Lions Leos at Tappan Zee High School and members of the Tappan Zee girls lacrosse team volunteered with Piermont Community Garden Rebuild Project on April 6.

Music department wins contest

NYACK - The Nyack Music Program has won $10,000 in the National Educational Music Company's "Music is Life' competition. An additional $1,000 was given to the music parents' support group, MusicWorks. Sixteen school music programs entered the contest, which was based on online voting by the public. The instruments will be presented to the school on April 30.

Students remember victims of Holocaust

ROCKLAND JEWISH ACADEMY - Third-, fourth- and fifth-graders at Rockland Jewish Academy in West Nyack sat in a darkened room as fifth-graders led a Yom HaShoah program to remember the 6 million Jews and 5 million additional victims of the Holocaust. Quietly singing songs and reading poetry, the children conducted a solemn ceremony, lighting memorial candles and bringing light into the darkness.

TZ students lend a hand to project

SOUTH ORANGETOWN - Members of the Blauvelt Lions Leos at Tappan Zee High School and members of the Tappan Zee girls lacrosse team volunteered with the Piermont Community Garden Rebuild Project on April 6. The students helped to move and set up the 8,000 bricks needed for the project. The storm surge created by Superstorm Sandy destroyed the Village Garden, which had been a vital part of the community for more than 18 years. Garden members have been working rigorously to raise funds and obtain the donations needed to rebuild.

St. Thomas honors exemplary student

ROCKLAND - Stephanie Nelson of Stony Point was inducted into the 2013 Honor Society for being named to the dean's list for three semesters at St. Thomas Aquinas College in Sparkill. She was also inducted into Pi Gamma Mu for excellence in social sciences and Alpha Chi, which promotes academic excellence and exemplary character. Nelson is a 2011 graduate of North Rockland High School.

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